Why the study?
Does operative treatment of acute hip fractures cause significant elevations in cardiac biomarkers (CK-MB, LD-1/LD-2 ratio)?
Population
16 patients who underwent operative treatment of acute hip fractures
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
perioperative
Authors
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Elevations after hip fracture surgery may indicate myocardial injury; hypothesis-generating for biomarker thresholds in trauma cohorts.
Does operative treatment of acute hip fractures cause significant elevations in cardiac biomarkers (CK-MB, LD-1/LD-2 ratio)?
Elevations of serum CK-MB exceeding 50 IU/L and an LD-1/LD-2 ratio exceeding 1.0 following hip fracture surgery should not be attributed to skeletal muscle injury alone and may indicate true myocardial injury.
Wukich et al. (1989) studied this question.
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